Six-state 127 Yard Sale and its Tennessee roots: ‘If you can’t find it, you don’t need it’

What’s 690 miles long, shuts down schools, draws hundreds of thousands of people and is centered around one road?

It’s a sale like no other that spans six states, and it originated and is centralized in Tennessee’s Fentress County. It includes so much stuff that, “If you can’t find it you don’t need it,” Fentress County Executive Jimmy Johnson said.

The 127 Yard Sale, scheduled this year for Aug. 7-10, stretches from Alabama to Michigan and draws an estimated 10,000 vendors…

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